"The plan, which he had mentioned, seemed to her long-harassed mind to exile her for ever from happiness, and all that was dear to her affections; it appeared like a second banishment to San Stefano, and every abbess, except that of La Pietà, came to her imagination in the portraiture of an inexorable jailor."
— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
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London
Publisher
Cadell and Davies
Date
1797
Metaphor
"The plan, which he had mentioned, seemed to her long-harassed mind to exile her for ever from happiness, and all that was dear to her affections; it appeared like a second banishment to San Stefano, and every abbess, except that of La Pietà, came to her imagination in the portraiture of an inexorable jailor."
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The plan, which he had mentioned, seemed to her long-harassed mind to exile her for ever from happiness, and all that was dear to her affections; it appeared like a second banishment to San Stefano, and every abbess, except that of La Pietà, came to her imagination in the portraiture of an inexorable jailor. While this subject engaged her, she was summoned to attend Schedoni, whom she found impatient to enter the carriage, which at this town they had been able to procure. Ellena, on looking out for the guide, was informed that he had already set off for his home, a circumstance, for the suddenness of which she knew not how to account.
(III.ii, p. 332)
(III.ii, p. 332)
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